Rick Duke
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Obama/Biden climate. Pro due process. Anti Smoot-Hawley.
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This is bunk. These sites are chosen to not interfere with radar systems, according to the process listed on...the Department of Energy's website: windexchange.energy.gov/projects/rad...
December 22, 2025 at 2:01 PM
This is bunk. These sites are chosen to not interfere with radar systems, according to the process listed on...the Department of Energy's website: windexchange.energy.gov/projects/rad...
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I look forward to the legally required, transparent peer review process required by the US Global Change Research Act and the Information Quality Act. I always thought they would try to do a NCA with Judith Curry, five old men and a LLM.
It’s the gold standard of US climate research. Contrarians could write the next one.
Researchers who have downplayed the threat of global warming have been asked to author the next National Climate Assessment.
www.eenews.net
December 22, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I look forward to the legally required, transparent peer review process required by the US Global Change Research Act and the Information Quality Act. I always thought they would try to do a NCA with Judith Curry, five old men and a LLM.
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60 MINUTES CORRESPONDENT: “Our story was screened 5x and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now is not an editorial decision, it is a political one.” #CBSNewsMAX #BariWeiss
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
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December 22, 2025 at 3:00 AM
60 MINUTES CORRESPONDENT: “Our story was screened 5x and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now is not an editorial decision, it is a political one.” #CBSNewsMAX #BariWeiss
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
Incredible work by NYT stitching together video clips to recreate just one of the extreme ICE operations. Terrifying and unacceptable.
www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
Video: How ‘Turn and Burn’ Immigration Operations Unleash Chaos — and Sweep up U.S. Citizens
A video analysis of one early morning raid in Los Angeles revealed the vast web of consequences brought by new aggressive Border Patrol tactics.
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Incredible work by NYT stitching together video clips to recreate just one of the extreme ICE operations. Terrifying and unacceptable.
www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
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The president doesn’t have the authority to murder civilians at sea.
The courts must order President Trump to disclose the Office of Legal Counsel opinion that tries to justify his deadly boat strike campaign, and any other materials relating to these crimes.
The courts must order President Trump to disclose the Office of Legal Counsel opinion that tries to justify his deadly boat strike campaign, and any other materials relating to these crimes.
Trump's Boat Strikes Are Illegal. The Public Needs Answers. | ACLU
The Trump administration must release its legal justification and all other materials related to its illegal lethal strikes on civilian boats at sea.
www.aclu.org
December 20, 2025 at 6:03 PM
The president doesn’t have the authority to murder civilians at sea.
The courts must order President Trump to disclose the Office of Legal Counsel opinion that tries to justify his deadly boat strike campaign, and any other materials relating to these crimes.
The courts must order President Trump to disclose the Office of Legal Counsel opinion that tries to justify his deadly boat strike campaign, and any other materials relating to these crimes.
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December 20, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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Susan Collins just voted to confirm all of these Trump nominees in a single vote. Only possible because of a Senate rule change that she helped push through over the objection of Democrats.
Collins sided against 85 Biden nominees -- all or nearly all highly qualified. #MEpolitics
Collins sided against 85 Biden nominees -- all or nearly all highly qualified. #MEpolitics
December 19, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Susan Collins just voted to confirm all of these Trump nominees in a single vote. Only possible because of a Senate rule change that she helped push through over the objection of Democrats.
Collins sided against 85 Biden nominees -- all or nearly all highly qualified. #MEpolitics
Collins sided against 85 Biden nominees -- all or nearly all highly qualified. #MEpolitics
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These are our most impressive institutions and crucial for our survival as a people and a species.
An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth
December 18, 2025 at 3:23 PM
These are our most impressive institutions and crucial for our survival as a people and a species.
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FORBES: “The Gun Murder Rate In Australia—Where 15 Were Slain At Bondi Beach—Is 6,000% Lower Than In U.S…”
www.forbes.com/sites/zachar...
www.forbes.com/sites/zachar...
December 15, 2025 at 4:47 AM
FORBES: “The Gun Murder Rate In Australia—Where 15 Were Slain At Bondi Beach—Is 6,000% Lower Than In U.S…”
www.forbes.com/sites/zachar...
www.forbes.com/sites/zachar...
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Sen. Ashley Moody seems EXTREMELY beatable to me next year in Florida. She really struggles on TV (as you can see in this clip) or to speak coherently in public in general.
December 12, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Sen. Ashley Moody seems EXTREMELY beatable to me next year in Florida. She really struggles on TV (as you can see in this clip) or to speak coherently in public in general.
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The 25th anniversary of Bush v Gore is today. The conspiracy mongering & corruption of the GOP has been brewing for a long time.
Roberts, Barrett and Kavanaugh were all on Bush's legal team, where they pushed unfounded legal theories. SC justices were already enmeshed in voter fraud myths.
Roberts, Barrett and Kavanaugh were all on Bush's legal team, where they pushed unfounded legal theories. SC justices were already enmeshed in voter fraud myths.
Here's Sandra Day O'Connor endorsing News Max levels of voter fraud conspiracies in the 2000 election.
December 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The 25th anniversary of Bush v Gore is today. The conspiracy mongering & corruption of the GOP has been brewing for a long time.
Roberts, Barrett and Kavanaugh were all on Bush's legal team, where they pushed unfounded legal theories. SC justices were already enmeshed in voter fraud myths.
Roberts, Barrett and Kavanaugh were all on Bush's legal team, where they pushed unfounded legal theories. SC justices were already enmeshed in voter fraud myths.
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The mass deportation of undocumented people was one of Hitler’s largest coercive policies before the war. This set off a chain of events which can give us a useful perspective on where we are now.
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Land War or Self-Terrorism?
Trump's Likely Next Step
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December 10, 2025 at 4:52 PM
The mass deportation of undocumented people was one of Hitler’s largest coercive policies before the war. This set off a chain of events which can give us a useful perspective on where we are now.
snyder.substack.com/p/self-terro...
snyder.substack.com/p/self-terro...
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The Administration is degrading the country's scientific R&D capabilities, that have been built up over many decades. These capabilities can't just be switched back on later.
Gonna wallow for a second: I'll share more info tomorrow, but over the last couple weeks, we've finally put our NSF center on ice as we continue to just not get paid and run out of money. I'm just so sad and angry about it. No real "but" at the end of this
December 5, 2025 at 4:05 AM
The Administration is degrading the country's scientific R&D capabilities, that have been built up over many decades. These capabilities can't just be switched back on later.
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Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
December 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
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The U.S. has conducted 19 strikes on alleged drug-carrying boats, killing at least 76 people.
Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it.
He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner.
This is a danger to us all.
Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it.
He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner.
This is a danger to us all.
December 2, 2025 at 10:45 PM
The U.S. has conducted 19 strikes on alleged drug-carrying boats, killing at least 76 people.
Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it.
He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner.
This is a danger to us all.
Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it.
He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner.
This is a danger to us all.
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If the U.S. was at war, Pete Hegseth's order would be a war crime, a military lawyer said. Instead, it might just be murder. wapo.st/49KbUJ1
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:07 PM
If the U.S. was at war, Pete Hegseth's order would be a war crime, a military lawyer said. Instead, it might just be murder. wapo.st/49KbUJ1
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Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing.
December 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing.
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Bash: "Do you believe if there was a second strike to eliminate any survivors that it constitutes a war crime?"
Mark Kelly: "It seems to."
Bash: "If you received that order, would you have carried it out?"
Mark Kelly: "No…Going after survivors in the water is unlawful."
Mark Kelly: "It seems to."
Bash: "If you received that order, would you have carried it out?"
Mark Kelly: "No…Going after survivors in the water is unlawful."
November 30, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Bash: "Do you believe if there was a second strike to eliminate any survivors that it constitutes a war crime?"
Mark Kelly: "It seems to."
Bash: "If you received that order, would you have carried it out?"
Mark Kelly: "No…Going after survivors in the water is unlawful."
Mark Kelly: "It seems to."
Bash: "If you received that order, would you have carried it out?"
Mark Kelly: "No…Going after survivors in the water is unlawful."
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This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.
November 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.
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Cold blooded murder.
November 28, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Cold blooded murder.
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The people who do this, who conceived of it, who demand it, are real life monsters.
“I had to take the baby from my crying wife’s arms.“ It hasn’t even been a year, and this is not a scandal anymore? What is wrong with us?
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM
The people who do this, who conceived of it, who demand it, are real life monsters.
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There must be zero tolerance for violence — of any kind — against the brave men and women in uniform who selflessly serve our communities and our country. The shooting of National Guard members in Washington, D.C. is horrific and unacceptable.
November 26, 2025 at 8:37 PM
There must be zero tolerance for violence — of any kind — against the brave men and women in uniform who selflessly serve our communities and our country. The shooting of National Guard members in Washington, D.C. is horrific and unacceptable.
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DuckDuckGo now lets you filter out AI images in search results. Obviously not infallible or exhaustive but it’s a start.
How To Filter Out AI Images in DuckDuckgo Search Results - DuckDuckGo Help Pages
Learn how to use filters on DuckDuckGo Private Search to hide AI-generated images in results.
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November 25, 2025 at 2:42 PM
DuckDuckGo now lets you filter out AI images in search results. Obviously not infallible or exhaustive but it’s a start.
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The energy transition happens often in unlikely places at unprecedented rates.
Take Nepal: Over the past year, electric vehicles accounted for 76 percent of all passenger vehicles and half of the light commercial vehicles sold in Nepal.
Five years ago, that number was essentially zero.
Take Nepal: Over the past year, electric vehicles accounted for 76 percent of all passenger vehicles and half of the light commercial vehicles sold in Nepal.
Five years ago, that number was essentially zero.
November 24, 2025 at 6:41 PM
The energy transition happens often in unlikely places at unprecedented rates.
Take Nepal: Over the past year, electric vehicles accounted for 76 percent of all passenger vehicles and half of the light commercial vehicles sold in Nepal.
Five years ago, that number was essentially zero.
Take Nepal: Over the past year, electric vehicles accounted for 76 percent of all passenger vehicles and half of the light commercial vehicles sold in Nepal.
Five years ago, that number was essentially zero.
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Comey: "I'm grateful the court ended the case against me, which was a prosecution based on malevolence & incompetence... I was inspired by the career people who refused to be part of this travesty. It cost some of them their jobs, but it preserved their integrity, which is beyond price"
November 24, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Comey: "I'm grateful the court ended the case against me, which was a prosecution based on malevolence & incompetence... I was inspired by the career people who refused to be part of this travesty. It cost some of them their jobs, but it preserved their integrity, which is beyond price"